Home Page Archive
2007
September 19: Real world spy takes down online clan.
Turncoat staff member booted all peons and members from the KSI Krime Syn Halo group.
September 15: Convention Links Update
Our page of convention links, now entering its second decade, has been scanned for linkrot and re-posted.
September 11: Features Modernization
It's taken a while, but our exclusives (including a famous ancient game design text and Cyberpunk sneak preview) have been cleaned up for the modern Web reader.
August 15: Origins Report
"It's a great huge game of chess that's being played -- all over the world," said Alice, in Through the Looking Glass.
After many, many years, Robert returns to the Origins game convention, where players from all over the world converge on GAMA's Mecca of Gaming.
2006
January 25: New Site Launch!
At long last, we're happy to present the new Chimera Magazine for your browsing pleasure. The overhaul and rebuild is composed of several parts, some still in progress:
- A behind-the-scenes modernization
- Chimera's layout was pretty good in 1996, but is showing its age a decade later -- after all, that's several generations of Internet Time. We've completely rebuilt the page templates using W3C-compliant HTML with 100% Cascading Style Sheets for presentation control, which should make edits and site management a lot easier.
- An organizational overhaul
- Over the years, the site's content grew into a sprawling, inconsistent directory structure. We've laid the groundwork for a more compact and predictable file layout; once we've migrated all the old content into it, that should fix the persistent problems we've had with broken internal navigation.
- The Lost Files
- While engaging in the above two activities, we've discovered some articles that inadventently got "orphaned" years ago. When their last incoming link was deleted, they just dropped off the net, invisible except to those few who had previously bookmarked the page. Well, they're back now, hopefully for good. We'll add more "lost files" if we discover archival material that was never online in the first place.
We hope you enjoy the new look, and that you'll come back occasionally to see what's been updated, especially in the convention report area.
2005
July 18: PolyCon Report
Ending several years hiatus, Chimera returns to everyone's favorite mid-year mid-California college-campus game convention! Join our intrepid reporter as he chronicles his solo trip up the Pacific coast.
2003
CampCon 2003 Report Posted
See our photo report on CampCon 2003: Into the Woods.
Origins 2003
Our report on the first of the big summer cons is now available.
June 2003
We are back now. We have plans and scenarios for the magazine. Please keep checking in.
Thank you for reading Chimera Magazine.
Robert Posada
Publisher
24 April 2003
Chimera has been in hiatus since shortly after Gen Con 2002. A sense of gloom enveloped us when we understood that Gen Con will not take place in Milwaukee anymore. This was our favorite working vacation and we will miss it.
This sense was aggravated by the death of Carol and, a month later, her husband David. They were central figures in the game convention scene here in Southern California. Their deaths also lead to the cancellation of Games University, one of our favorite local conventions.
Carol Turietta
The home page is dark in memory of Carol Anne Hendrick Turrietta and David Turrietta, who died within a month of each other. Carol and Dave could always be seen at the Los Angeles game conventions running the All Star Games crew. People who attend Origins and Gen Con, as well as other major game conventions in the USA have probably met them. We will miss them.
2002
September: More Gen Con reports
Read Neal's and Tatyanna's Gen Con 2002 convention reports.
August: Gen Con 2002
This was the last year Gen Con took place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Our photo report is up now. See more of the lovely Sarah inside.
Games University 2002
Report available now. Games U, a game convention with emphasis on teaching games more than competition, takes place in Orange County, California.
A look back at Polycon 2001: A Space Odyssey
Since Polycon 2002 is coming up, we figured it was about time to show our photo report of last year's show. See what you missed!
Icon 2002
The Icon 2002 pictures are up. Report is on its way.
OrcCon 2002
Our photo report of the President's Day convention in Los Angeles.
2001
Gen Con Thoughts
The ramblings, thoughts, and hazy recollections of three Chimera Magazine reporters are now available.
Exclusive Cyberpunk 3 preview
One of the cool things about Gen Con is getting the chance to play new games that will be released soon. Neal Sofge gives you the scoop on Cyberpunk v3.0, from R. Talsorian Games.
Gen Con 2001 report
As usual, we made our annual pilgrimage to the Mecca of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Please take a look at our Gen Con report.
Comic Con 2001
Our mini-report on the San Diego Comic Con.
Ten Wings
Ten Wings, more popularly known as "The Ten Points," is an ancient classic of game design. We were able to get the rare 1957 translation from W.E.C. Meadows at Oxford.
20th Century
We went to Gen Con 2000
Once again, we went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA for our annual pilgrimage to MECCA. (Well, MECCA is the old name; it's now the Midwest Express Convention Center, but we'll call it MECCA for the three years Gen Con will remain in Milwaukee.) The big news this time around is the release of the Third Edition (3e) of Dungeons and Dragons. We'll bring back a report or, technology permitting, an onsite report! We also bring you pictures of the great convention costumes, exhibitors, parties, and, of course, the Safehouse. Check out our report.
Domain Premiere
We are now on our own domain, at last. We hope you find this address easier to remember than the old long one with all the dashes and tildes. We are also in the process of redesigning the site. It has grown a lot, and the old navigation links have become insufficient.
